The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire.
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World. . . and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is
No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.